The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank closely aligned with Democrats, endorsed a version of a federal jobs guarantee in a new proposal Tuesday, bringing the ambitious left-wing idea closer to the Democratic mainstream.

In a sweeping economic reform plan that also includes big ideas such as paid child care and a major infrastructure program, the nonprofit think tank also called for a federal jobs guarantee for poor regions with high unemployment. Through the program, the government would offer employment, at minimum wage or higher, to anyone who needed and wanted work, or subsidize a private business to do the same.

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